Idea: Federated #finger. Fedifinger.
The problem with finger is not knowing which where a who is at. Finger should be a standard providing references for where one can go to find talk and answers. The fingerservers would just beacon and repeat their .keywords to each other when polled. Fingering the server would provide a standard display on how to find more info and resources on a given item or topic.
So if Alice set up a listserv for her Foo widget gitea, that is great. But how to know that is THE place people should go to discuss her Foo? Finger should tell people these things, pick up the slack from the dying search engines.
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